Polar Research in public discourse – setting the stage

Summary: Polar Research gained bigger than ever extent and support, both on the state-political and the wide public level. We want to start the discussion on how the public concern is formed, and what are the inspirations that drive researchers to choose this type of career. It seems that in the non...

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Main Author: Jan Marcin Węsławski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
Series:Oceanologia
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0078323420300233
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description Summary: Polar Research gained bigger than ever extent and support, both on the state-political and the wide public level. We want to start the discussion on how the public concern is formed, and what are the inspirations that drive researchers to choose this type of career. It seems that in the non-Arctic country like Poland the sentiment, associated with the historical polar events together with widely accessible and attractive documentary films, was essential in shaping the societal support for spending public money on polar studies.
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spelling doaj.art-6eaf8f871e6e4a63b754ee4f8317e7792022-12-22T00:17:04ZengElsevierOceanologia0078-32342020-10-01624634636Polar Research in public discourse – setting the stageJan Marcin Węsławski0Corresponding author at: Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstańców Warszawy 55, 81–712 Sopot, Poland.; Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, PolandSummary: Polar Research gained bigger than ever extent and support, both on the state-political and the wide public level. We want to start the discussion on how the public concern is formed, and what are the inspirations that drive researchers to choose this type of career. It seems that in the non-Arctic country like Poland the sentiment, associated with the historical polar events together with widely accessible and attractive documentary films, was essential in shaping the societal support for spending public money on polar studies.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0078323420300233Polar ResearchPublic understanding of scienceScience communication
spellingShingle Jan Marcin Węsławski
Polar Research in public discourse – setting the stage
Oceanologia
Polar Research
Public understanding of science
Science communication
title Polar Research in public discourse – setting the stage
title_full Polar Research in public discourse – setting the stage
title_fullStr Polar Research in public discourse – setting the stage
title_full_unstemmed Polar Research in public discourse – setting the stage
title_short Polar Research in public discourse – setting the stage
title_sort polar research in public discourse setting the stage
topic Polar Research
Public understanding of science
Science communication
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0078323420300233
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